Technician Program for the Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA. While in Boston, Israel also worked with WGBH Educational Foundation, in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, on the production of the "Music and Words" program which integrates music and literature into curriculum based activities. In Colombia, he created and taught the first university classes on jazz history and harmony, salsa and Latin ensembles for the music program at Javeriana University in the late 80s/early 90s. On his return to Colombia in 2008, he introduced music business classes to the Javeriana Faculty of Arts where he taught and directed Latin and jazz ensembles until 2014. As the leader for ViveLab Huila in Pitalito Colombia, Israel was responsible for dozens of workshops to train thousands of people from the region under the slogan "Building the Digital Future" as well as continuing education programs in animation, youth entrepreneurship and cultural activities such as the San Agustin Film Festival and performances by youth orchestras. Acoustic Design Israel is an expert in the design of sound insulation for rehearsal and recording studios. In the decade of the 80s, he designed the first rehearsal studio in Bogota, Colombia (in the downtown neighborhood of "La Concordia") used by bands such as Guayacan, Ivan and Lucia and Ache. In the 90s, Israel designed studios for various artists and bands including Guayacan in Cali, Yurumei Studio owned by Honduran Efrain Martinez, Char Studio for the Colombian pianist Simon Char in Boston, Massachusetts and Chekere Studio for the Cuban percussionist Jorge Najarro in Rhode Island. In 2010, Tanenbaum built the rehearsal and recording rooms of K30 Estudio in Bogotá and in 2012, he was a consultant for the design of the recording studio for the Technological and Cultural Center Somos Pacífico in Cali, Colombia. Festivals and venues Israel has performed (among others) at: New Morning, Paris, France Festival de Música del Caribe, Cartagena, Colombia JVC Jazz Festival, Turin, Italy Nice Jazz Festival, Nice, France Festival de Jazz Teatro Libre, Bogotá, Colombia Festival Latino, Switzerland Open Tropen Jazz Festival, Belgium Feria de Cali, Cali, Colombia Roots Festival, Holland Village Gate, New York, NY Yoshi's, Oakland, CA SOB's, New York, NY Vermont Jazz Festival, Burlington, VT Festival Latino Americano, Florence, Italy Carnaval de Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, Bogotá, Colombia Madison Square Garden, New York, NY Festival de Música de Barichara, Santander, Colombia Angelicas, Redwood City, CA Affiliations ASCAP